I see that they have added a public questions forum. I put my two most pressing questions there.
https://discourse.labs.nic.cz/c/turris-omnia Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am pretty excited to see this happen. > > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-omnia-hi-performance-open-source-router#/updates > > Maybe it will arduino-ize (or raspberry pi) the home router/cpe > market, and multiple manufacturers, vendors, and ISPS, jump on the > open gerbers(?), and architecture to turn it into a home routing > platform we as a community can be proud of. > > In particular, I have some hope for an open gpon SFP, and I do keep > hoping we'll end up with a good wifi device of some sort for it - I'm > still trying to get into some decent new 802.11ac chipsets here, I > hope they have picked one out and established a good relationship with > the manufacturer. > > I do sometimes, get bothered by the sort of "exciting" things people > add as "stretch" goals. > > I'd love someone to promise - in exchange for funding - > > A) years of free or inexpensive updates - or a plan for such > B) or an improved kernel - or a continuously improved one > C) or an extensive QA and build farm during the product build process > D) years of uptime and reliability after ship > E) email suport > > Something that to me, says "this will be a quality product". Why do > people not think about long term costs of maintaining something that > you will own for 5-15 years or more? I'd gladly pay $12/yr to *know* > my home router was being maintained properly. But maybe that's just > me.... > > I'd like to see something that doesn't treat the really difficult > parts of OS and driver development and maintenance as invisible costs. > I'd love to know this puppy was going to be well maintained, and not > abandoned. I worry that the OS is an openwrt "fork", not a branch, and > wonder what kernels will be on it, and wonder if it will be ietf > homenet compliant, etc. > > It bugs me there seems to be no mailing list or git tree or buildbot > system to access. ? > > And lastly, the fact that everybody on indigogo wants, in a variety of > colors, the "finished" product (nobody spent 1k on any of the first 10 > prototypes), rather than getting in on making it "finished", *really* > bugs me. People need to get in there (as we're doing with the 1200ac) > and make it *good*, not just lounge around waiting for someone else to > do it. > > Anyway, I just tried to order the 1k prototype box. Needed paypal. > Don't have a working paypal account. Will go fix that. > > ... I *really* don't want to have to do another cerowrt, I'd much > rather finish cake, make wifi faster on some chipset if some > manufacturer will let us, and contribute to a product we can as open > code loving, freedom loving, reliability loving, low latency loving > folk, actually love. > > Dave Täht > Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! > https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
